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Filial Appeal Association Releases New Book on Synod Written by Three Bishops

by Filial Appeal Association January 28, 2018May 20, 2015

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Filial Appeal Association Releases New Book on Synod Written by Three Bishops ROME, Italy (May 20, 2015) – A booklet titled Preferential Option for the Family – One Hundred Questions and One Hundred Answers Regarding the Synod (Filial Appeal Publishers) was launched on May 19 at the Hotel Columbus … Read more

The Impact of Religion on Education

by John Horvat II December 17, 2020May 3, 2015

Education and religion are often seen to be incompatible. There is an underlying notion inside the liberal education establishment that religious belief is backwards and contrary to enlightenment. Schools have long been viewed as gateways to a glorious secular and technological future, free of religious superstition. After all, the purpose of education … Read more

Sprinting Toward Gomorrah: The Folding of Virtuous Leadership in America’s Military Leaders

by Colonel David Bolgiano September 7, 2023May 1, 2015

In 2013, at Mountain Home Air Force Base, an inspirational painting referencing a Bible verse was removed from a dining hall after an anti-religion group filed a complaint. The more recent uproar surrounding Indiana Governor Mike Pence and the Progressives continual assault on religious liberty only served to open a raw wound … Read more

God’s Mercy “On Those Who Fear Him”

by Luiz Sérgio Solimeo March 2, 2017April 11, 2015

The ceremonies of Holy Week, in which we remember the sorrowful Passion and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ and His glorious Resurrection, lead us to meditate on the seriousness of sin and on the infinite justice of God, as well as on His infinite mercy. Reparation to God’s Offended Justice Indeed, … Read more

Death Penalty: Avoiding Ambiguity in Doctrinal Matters

by Luiz Sérgio Solimeo January 13, 2019March 11, 2015

In a strange coalition, conservative and liberal Catholic publications made an appeal to Catholics: “We, the editors of four Catholic journals — America, National Catholic Register, National Catholic Reporter and Our Sunday Visitor — urge the readers of our diverse publications and the whole U.S. Catholic community and all people of faith … Read more

“Sex Change”: Biological Impossibility and Revolt Against God

by Luiz Sérgio Solimeo February 14, 2018March 6, 2015

To its “LGB” acronym the homosexual movement added the “T” for “transsexual” or “transgender” in a kind of “common front” of all anomalies in sexual behavior. Unsurprisingly, the acronym keeps increasing. For example “LGBTTQQIAAP” (Transsexual, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, Ally, Pansexual). The inclusion of so-called “transsexualism” or “transgenderism” in the homosexual campaign … Read more

Over One Hundred Thousand Appeal to Pope Francis: Save the Family!

by Joseph Jordan September 17, 2025March 6, 2015

Spring Grove, March 5.— The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP), working together with like-minded groups throughout the world, has launched a worldwide filial petition to Pope Francis to safeguard the family. This petition, which already has over 125,000 signatures, will be presented before the upcoming world … Read more

“I Thirst:” A Lenten Reflection on Terri Schiavo Ten Years Later

by Norman Fulkerson July 11, 2018March 2, 2015

It is a yearly custom for Catholics to reflect, during Lent, on the Passion and death of our Divine Savior. He was entirely innocent of wrongdoing, yet was ignominiously subjected to a show trial and condemned to a brutally painful death. This year many Catholics will also be thinking of the strikingly … Read more

Filial Petition to Pope Francis

by TFP.org September 17, 2025February 25, 2015

Dissident Catholic pressure groups, aided by the liberal media, are feverishly working to dismantle vital Church teaching on marriage and family at the next Synod on the Family in Rome. In fact, they are bombarding the Holy Father and the Synod Fathers right now with messages of revolt against traditional moral values … Read more

List of dignitaries who signed the Filial Appeal to Pope Francis on the Future of the Family

by The American TFP September 17, 2025February 23, 2015

Kigeli V, exiled King of Rwanda Dr. Alejandro Ordóñez Maldonado, Attorney General of the Republic of Colombia Wolfgang Waldstein, Professor emeritus of the University of Salzburg, member of the Pontifical Academy for Life (Germany) The Most Rev. Wolfgang Haas, Archbishop of Vaduz (Liechtenstein) Joseph M. Scheidler and his wife, Founder and National Director of the Pro-Life … Read more